How to always get English font name via PrivateFontCollection in C#?

Question

Now I am getting the font name by the following code:

PrivateFontCollection fontCollection = new PrivateFontCollection();
fontCollection.AddFontFile("path_to_my_Thai_font");
return fontCollection.Families[0].Name;

On a English Win7 system, I get "DFPHeiMedium-UN", but on a Chinese Win7 system, I get "華康中黑體(P)-UN". So, the font name differs in different system languages.

My question is how to write my code to make sure that I can always get "DFPHeiMedium-UN" regardless of the system language?

Thank you.

By the way, I tried CurrentCulture. I put this line before the above code. Still don't work. Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-us");

Answer 1

You can use the GetName function which accepts a language identifier, or 0 for the neutral language:

PrivateFontCollection fontCollection = new PrivateFontCollection();
fontCollection.AddFontFile("path_to_my_Thai_font");
return fontCollection.Families[0].GetName(0);

As to why you culture change didn't work, we can look at the implementation of Name in the reference source:

    public String Name 
    {
        get 
        {   
            return GetName(CurrentLanguage);
        }
    }

And if we inspect CurrentLanguage, we can see that it's using System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.LCID, that is, the current UI culture, rather than CurrentCulture.